Liz Merker

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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“SLAPBAR” by Liz Merker

If someone had told me all this was going to happen this morning, I would not have believed them. I am not the type to seek out anything outside the norm - I wake up, go to work, chat with friends on the way home, play GTA 8, take my pills and go to sleep. I still have gave the same username I chose in elementary. And I was perfectly content. Until today. Apparently, there was an error in my code. Around 9:46 AM, Bossman_08 rolled into my office, enraged. I had never seen him in person before. He cut an intimidating figure even over Zoom, bu...

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“Moon Over Pensacola” by Liz Merker

Submitted to Contest #78

Warning: this story contains foul language "C'mon, it'll be fun," Jack says, knocking back another Jaeger shot. I eye my own shot apprehensively, not sure if I need to be this drunk in a hurricane.  We drank the whole way from Abilene, 12 hours and 26 minutes of lite beer and Jimmy Buffet's greatest hits ( the only tape Jack has left kicking around in his '84 Nissan 720) and him trying to convince me. Now, as the sky grows dark outside the tempered glass windows of the bar, I am far less convinced than I was back in Texas. Eve...

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